Who is the best guitarist in the world?
In the words of Eric Clapton; “The best guitarist in the world … … there’s one in every crowd”. I couldn’t agree more, as I also believe that there is no such thing and hence this is am impossible question to answer. The ‘best’ guitarist is presumably the one you like to listen to the most and we all like to listen to different things. Therefore it figures that we can all have completely different opinions on who is ‘the best’. The question which I can try to answer is “Who is your favourite guitarist?” though even this is very difficult as I enjoy listening to so many. For me guitarists can be enjoyable to listen to for their rhythm or lead playing, their ability to create melodies, their tone, their ‘nastiness’ etc. It’s very unusual for me to enjoy listening to a guitarist simply because of their technical ability and speed. I suppose I may seem unusual to some guitarists in as much as I regard speed and technical ability to be an almost unimportant requirement towards becoming a gr
